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Lenape Talking Dictionary
By English WORD or PHRASE
By Lenape WORD or PHRASE
Detailed Entry Information
English:
we kicked each other (incl.)
Lenape:
kshakhwìkawtihëna [vta]
Comments
Unstressed /ë/ is elided; an unrelated /ë/ is inserted as a transition sound in the semantically empty /-hm/ suffix.
/m/ is elided before /n/.
The first person plural suffix /-nan/ is realized as /-na/ in final position.
Analysis
Form:
kshakhwìkawtihëna
Structure:
k-shakhwìkaw-ëti-hm-nan
Meaning:
2-kick-recip-MP-1.pl